---
title: "Juno Captures Stunning Images of a Solar Eclipse on Jupiter"
description: "While performing a close flyby of Jupiter, NASA's Juno spacecraft captured several stunning images of a solar eclipse on the gas giant."
date: "2019-09-18"
modified: "2019-09-18"
authors:
  - name: "Kristin Houser"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/kristin"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/juno-solar-eclipse-jupiter"
categories:
  - "Energy"
  - "Renewable Energy"
  - "Science & Energy"
  - "Solar Power"
tags:
  - "Juno"
  - "jupiter"
  - "solar eclipse"
  - "the digest"
---

# Juno Captures Stunning Images of a Solar Eclipse on Jupiter

![While performing a close flyby of Jupiter, NASA's Juno spacecraft captured several stunning images of a solar eclipse on the gas giant.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/juno-solar-eclipse-jupiter.jpg>)
*Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill \<em\>Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill\</em\>*

## Mr. Shadow

On September 12, NASA’s Juno spacecraft performed its twenty-second close flyby of Jupiter, careening down until it was just 8,000 kilometers (4,970 miles) above the gas giant's clouds

From that epic vantage point, Juno then snapped a [stunning series of photos](<https://www.space.com/juno-sees-io-moon-shadow-on-jupiter.html>) of the shadow of Jupiter's moon [Io](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/volcano-jupiter-moon-erupt>) on the planet. In other words, it captured images of a solar eclipse on a planet besides Earth *from space*.

![While performing a close flyby of Jupiter, NASA's Juno spacecraft captured several stunning images of a solar eclipse on the gas giant.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Jupiter-solar-eclipse-1200x1200.jpg>)
*Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill*

## New Perspective

The images of Jupiter's solar eclipse are breathtaking. It almost looks like someone drilled a hole through to the planet's center, or perhaps spilled a really, really big vat of [Vantablack](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/vantablack-bmw>) on Jupiter's surface.

But no, the images depict a natural phenomenon that [happens regularly](<https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/eclipses/en/>) here on Earth — but thanks to Juno, we're able to appreciate it in a way never before possible.

![While performing a close flyby of Jupiter, NASA's Juno spacecraft captured several stunning images of a solar eclipse on the gas giant.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Jupiter-Solar-Eclipse-22-1200x675.png>)
*Image Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Björn Jónsson*

**READ MORE:** [NASA's Juno Mission Checks Out Eclipse on Jupiter](<https://www.space.com/juno-sees-io-moon-shadow-on-jupiter.html>) \[Space.com\]

**More on Jupiter:** *[A Giant Volcano on One of Jupiter’s Moons Is About to Erupt](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/volcano-jupiter-moon-erupt>)*

### Author social links  
[LinkedIn](<https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristinjhouser>)